quote:

A Middle East policy adviser for Barack Obama has left the campaign after acknowledging having held talks with Hamas, FOX News confirms.

The Times newspaper in London first reported Friday that the campaign was severing ties with the adviser, Robert Malley.

Malley said he had been in contact with the Palestinian group, but only through his work for a “conflict resolution think tank,” and not on behalf of the Obama campaign, the newspaper reported.

Obama spokesman Bill Burton told FOX News Malley was “an ancillary adviser who never met with Obama, literally one of hundreds of informal advisers who from time to time offered advice on Middle East policy.”

Another Obama spokesman told The Times Malley “has no formal role in the campaign and he will not play any role in the future.”

Hamas, which is labeled a terrorist organization by the State Department, is a touchy issue for the Obama campaign.

Hamas adviser Ahmed Yousef said in a recent interview, “We like Mr. Obama, we hope that he will win the election,” and presumptive Republican nominee John McCain has poked fun at Obama for the apparent endorsement.

McCain has said he would be Hamas’ “worst nightmare”; he told “The Daily Show’s” Jon Stewart Wednesday that he could “guarantee” Hamas would not endorse him for president.

Obama accused McCain of “losing his bearings” and engaging in a smear campaign for the remarks.

quote:

STAFF /stæf, stɑf/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[staf, stahf] adjective, verb
–noun 1. a group of persons, as employees, charged with carrying out the work of an establishment or executing some undertaking.
2. a group of assistants to a manager, superintendent, or executive.
3. a member of a staff.
4. Military. a. a body of officers without command authority, appointed to assist a commanding officer.
b. the parts of any army concerned with administrative matters, planning, etc., rather than with actual participation in combat.

5. those members of an organization serving only in an auxiliary or advisory capacity on a given project. Compare line1 (def. 38).

quote:

If he gets elected, I will begin looking for jobs in Toronto.

T

quote:

Originally posted by scrounge:
We're using semantics to excuse this behavior? While casting stones at conservative talk radio...

Priceless!

quote:

Originally posted by mboccia:

quote:

If he gets elected, I will begin looking for jobs in Toronto.

T

As you once said to me, stop being so dramatic. Even though our current President has definately assumed more power then the constitution grants, he still has a limit. Pay attention to your state and local governments, thats where the bread and butter is, or should be.

quote:

What works in Montana may not work in Florida.

quote:

Originally posted by FourString:

quote:

Originally posted by scrounge:
We're using semantics to excuse this behavior? While casting stones at conservative talk radio...

Priceless!

Perhaps you missed the part where the Obama campaign severed ties with the advisor. What more do you want, the guy to be hanged?

quote:

Originally posted by SacraficialMetal:
wasn't it presidential candidate ronald reagan who held talks with the iranians at the time they were holding U.S. hostages......in order to insure his victory.......

what's the difference........oh that's it, we found out before the election.......and you don't like Obama......

quote:

The quotes below are from Obama's book, "Dreams of My Father";
Although Obama spent various portions of his youth living with his white maternal grandfather and Indonesian stepfather, he vowed that he would "never emulate white men and brown men whose fates didn't speak to my own. It was into my father's image, the black man, son of Africa, that I'd packed all the attributes I sought in myself, the attributes of Martin and Malcolm, DuBois and Mandela."

This is from "Audacity of Hope";
"There were enough of us on campus to constitute a tribe, and when it came to hanging out many of us chose to function like a tribe, staying close together, traveling in packs," he wrote. "It remained necessary to prove which side you were on, to show your loyalty to the black masses, to strike out and name names."

From "Dreams";
"The emotion between the races could never be pure," "Even love was tarnished by the desire to find in the other some element that was missing in ourselves. Whether we sought out our demons or salvation, the other race would always remain just that: menacing, alien, and apart."

"There was something about him that made me wary," Obama wrote. "A little too sure of himself, maybe. And white"

quote:

Originally posted by militia1:

quote:

Originally posted by SacraficialMetal:
wasn't it presidential candidate ronald reagan who held talks with the iranians at the time they were holding U.S. hostages......in order to insure his victory.......

what's the difference........oh that's it, we found out before the election.......and you don't like Obama......

I dont like him. He clearly has some racist tendencies. Nice how he compares himself to Malcom.

quote:

The quotes below are from Obama's book, "Dreams of My Father";
Although Obama spent various portions of his youth living with his white maternal grandfather and Indonesian stepfather, he vowed that he would "never emulate white men and brown men whose fates didn't speak to my own. It was into my father's image, the black man, son of Africa, that I'd packed all the attributes I sought in myself, the attributes of Martin and Malcolm, DuBois and Mandela."

This is from "Audacity of Hope";
"There were enough of us on campus to constitute a tribe, and when it came to hanging out many of us chose to function like a tribe, staying close together, traveling in packs," he wrote. "It remained necessary to prove which side you were on, to show your loyalty to the black masses, to strike out and name names."

From "Dreams";
"The emotion between the races could never be pure," "Even love was tarnished by the desire to find in the other some element that was missing in ourselves. Whether we sought out our demons or salvation, the other race would always remain just that: menacing, alien, and apart."

"There was something about him that made me wary," Obama wrote. "A little too sure of himself, maybe. And white"

Yep, now I am sure I dont like him. Racist.

T

quote:

Originally posted by SacraficialMetal:
.....so the two state campaign managers caught hanging around bathrooms for sex in two separate occations in two separate states should weigh heavily on the candidate........even if it was mccain's campaign managers?